Stories that I've heard concerning the Astrodome are very disheartening. Complaints because the clothing donations are "used". Complaints about the wait for shower facilities. Complaints about the lack of apts. available. There are some nice stories, also. But volunteers are getting discouraged and may stop showing up.
Has the Gov of LA spoken at her presser yet?
No good deed ever goes unpunished, does it?
I don't understand this. in 2002 I lost everything I had in a house fire. The trauma of this eventually subsided (although sometimes I get up in the middle of the night in a panic and check every room), but the response from neighbors and strangers was life-changing for me.
The (used) donated clothes no longer fit me, some of them never did, but I refuse to throw them out. They hang in a "place of honor" in my closet next to my finest Sunday suits.
There was money collected, too, and it was a life saver. But I will NEVER forget when a family at our church had us over for a hot cooked meal and prayers. It was the best meal I ever had, although I can't remember what we ate. I was exhausted and at the end of my rope trying to "be the man" and hold the pieces of my family together while spending 10 hours a day in our burned out house clearing debris and doing an inventory for insurance. You have no idea how much a simple hot meal can mean to a person at that moment!
The baskets of toys for my kids, a perfect stranger gave us a microwave, those wonderful second-hand clothes. I cannot speak of that time without tears in my eyes; not because of the tragedy, but because for the first time in my life, I SAW the Holy Spirit with my own eyes. It is indeed glorious.
I cannot comment on the ingratitude you posted about. Such a thing is incomprehensible to me.